Tom Arnold

Howdy, its shaggy.

Lately Tom Arnold has been coming into the office to offer his talents for an animation we are working on. Its called "Tom Arnold Saves the World!" Don't worry America, Tom will pull us out of this rut!

Here's a sketch and the final version :)




The sketch of his head turned out kinda crappy but I think I saved it a bit by tweaking the chin and mouths in the final illustration ;) Labamba created his body and pudgy fingers.

Big Foot goes to the Olympics!

Hola Amigos! Have you guys seen the video of that Poor Beijing Olympic weightlifter who broke his arm? Well this week Big Foot is gonna show em how its done! Here's a sneak peek of Mr. Big Foot, Background and Beijing Olympic Chinese man.

I used Illustrator to create Mr. Big Foot. He's a simple character with simple shapes so sketching was unnecessary.

Here's Shaggy's Lil' Beijing Olympic Employee doing his job. Shaggy also used Illustrator to create him.

Here's Shaggy's beautiful Olympic BG. He mainly used Illustrator, but a touch of Photoshop and Corel Painter.

Characters for clients

Here are some character concepts made this week for someone somewhere that might do something sometime. The dude wearing the ACDC shirt kinda reminds me of Jamie Hewlett's work (just not as awesome). It was an accident, but maybe happened because a week or so ago i was reading an interview with him about his animation he did for the olympics. His work is awesome, and might have been floating around in my empty cranium while i was doodling and found an exit through my nose and ended up on the paper :)

This week...

Hey, it's Shaggy!

This week we were going to start working on an animation with Prez Bush, Dick Cheney, and of course Obama and McCain. It was going to be titled Presidential Olympics and feature the Presidential Olympic event of baby kissing. Baby kissing is a crucial event for the presidential candidates to express their tender side to the American People. With the right technique one can raise their public image, and still secretly taste some delicious babies.

Anyway, Later on Tuesday we changed directions and are putting up a silly Olympic montage this week. Also, Monkey came up with a good way to show the progression of McCain's 4 years in office if he wins. I wont give it away but it should be silly ;) Look for that in a week or so.

Also, if you happen to be a beautiful young lady, live in the Los Angeles area, and are willing to come into our office...We need you to star in a game we are going to create :)

If you're interested, send me a pic of yourself, and i'll get back to you with more info.
email... lgshaggy at gmail dot com

Here are some drawings that were done for the Presidential Olympics animation before it was canned :(




have a great weekend!
-shaggy

David Archuleta

Shaggy here,

So midday Tuesday of this week we thought up an animation of American Idol's, David Archuleta. We're going to be rushing to get it done by Friday, but all should go well. The best part about this animation is I'm out of town Friday so I dont have to deal with putting it together!

Basically, it was inspired off of the vulture in Bugs Bunny. Seacrest is going to ask David some fairly basic questions and David is going to get all bashful. What an adorable kid he is :)

LaBamba, once again did some great bodies for the characters. The way we are setting them up is creating most of the art in Adobe Illustrator and importing it into flash. Thats the typical way we do things here. All Davids blinks, mouths, arms, and poses are drawn out first and illustrated. Then they are set up in flash for animation.

Obama and Hillary

Hey, its Shaggy :)

This week we are working on a ridiculous piece called "Things You'll Never See" staring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. To spoil it for you, they end up making out. Anyway, this is the new style we are going to try for the majority of our pieces. Its a bit simpler looking so adding new parts on the fly in flash shouldn't be so daunting and time consuming. Hopefully, this will add to the fluidity of our animations. Labamba and I had a week to create this piece, from the idea stage to the final product.

Here are the finals.

Labamba created the bodies and colored Hillary's head. I colored Obama's head

Here are the sketches I did of their faces

check it out here!

LG Pilot Characters

Happy New Year everyone! We are going to start off the new year with a pretty sweet post. As the two of you know, we have been working on an exciting new pilot with Mark Burnett. So today, here's a sneek peek at some of the main and sub characters of our beloved pilot. Enjoy!

Characters were sketched by our very own Joezee, who ya'll can see is da man, and characters were Illustrated by Cabana Boy and Natty Red, whose thumbs are bloody, and have gained 50 pounds each (33 characters in this pilot...eppp!). Goooo Animation!

Til next time adios amigos!

An LG animation on TV?

Holy smokes! Its been a while since our last post. I'm afraid our blog traffic has dropped from 5 to 2 visitors! Crap! Ok shaggy, if ever there was a time to bring out the most amazing, sure fire content piece, now is the time! (when I'm in a high pressure situation i usually talk to myself in the third person) Alright, you need something drastic to post and boobies just wont cut it. I mean check out this comment on one of our last pieces featuring boobs!

"Seriously! Enough with the fucking boob shit. You guys don't talk about anything but tits anymore. The humor is juvenile, the voices are pathetic and this obsession with tits is just getting awkward. It's like listening to a virgin go on and on about all the sex he's had, to cover up the fact he's gay. Fire your comic writers and hire some new ones. This was cool in 98, but it's 2007, GET WITH THE TIMES!"

Obviously boobs are so 1998. Seems like Shaggy's screwed. I guess he will just have to tell you about his week at LG...

So, we have been working some nutty hours lately for an animation we are trying to get on TV! We've just begun the actual production of it and are in the process of creating all the artwork. Just recently we've finished up the storyboards and added the voice over audio to it. We brought in some amazing voice tallent! Tom Kenny and Tara Strong are the two most familiar ones! Nothing but the best in the biz for us! They all did an amazing job.

Here are some final backgrounds for the piece that Labamba and I created. They were all sketched in Photoshop with a Wacom Tablet and colored in Adobe Illustrator. Our last couple blog posts about background concepts were an attempt to come up with a look for this pilot animation. ( 1, 2)

Next week we will post the characters that JoeZee designed and Cabana Boy and Natty Red helped Illustrate. They are friggin' sweet!

establishing shot of the island off the coast of Maine (sketch: shaggy illustration: labamba)

A dock where the first shot takes place (sketch: shaggy illustration: labamba character: joezee)

Dining room. (sketch: shaggy illustration: labamba characters: joezee)

Zack's rundown new school. (sketch: shaggy illustration: shaggy character: joezee)

Restaurant (sketch: shaggy illustration: shaggy)

Elves Gone Wild!

Elves Gone Wild! This is an animation that will probably go live next week. Here's a sneek peek of the production. Enjoy!

Some concept sketches of the characters by JoeZee. We decided to go with the middle elf because the elf on the left looked too young. Santa's fat. JoeZee sketched these in .4 seconds.

The final version of the Elf. He's happy.

Here's Cabana Boy's sketch of the main Background. We asked him to do a generic large long background so that we can use it for many shots. We're lazy.

All fancy, illustrated...and blurry. We blur backgrounds sometimes so that our characters "pop" more in the scene. Its a good little trick if you don't have time for palettes and stuff.

Santa's gonna dance topless in this one. Eepp! Shaggy's genius animation's gonna gross you guys out. See how Santa really stands out, go blurry BG!

Mrs. Clause gets a surprise. Oh those mischievous elves!

Rudolph's gonna kick some ass.

Beartoes has magical hairy Photoshop powers. Beartoes really has an eye for colors and layout. As with all our recent games, and quizzes, beartoes makes some serious eye candy. Too bad he smells like a wet dog and dirt.

Another Background Concept

We've been working on creating a background style for an animaiton we are going to begin but havn't been having much luck. Most the artists have been taking a crack at it so far, but we havnt found a style that fits. The problem has been that we've been adding too much detail and trying to come up with something interesting and unique. Normally that would be awesome, but we have some stylized characters, and we dont want to distract the viewer with some busy backgrounds.



This background uses the same line quality and keeps the detail fairly low. We experimented with different colors but, the Boss wants a "Simpsons" look, so we are going with the bright pastel colors.



Later Ill post some of the finished background concepts.

This is another video of me illustrating it! Snapz Pro is a sweet program :) I'm sure Ill continue to bore you with vids like this! Maybe one day I'll add the video thats not sped up. Exciting! A full three and a half hours of slow paced illustrating fun!

Background Concept

Here is a background concept style for a pilot we're going to be pumping out in the next month or so. It still has a little ways to go as far as looks though. I just don't think its there yet. Anyway, I recorded myself illustrating it! Sweet. It's recorded at real time. I'm actually half cyborg and can work that fast! Sweet. Plus all I need is this goo that tastes like baby food to keep me functioning.


The thing that sucks about this video is that I didn't start it until I already illustrated the bluff on the left, AND, the video of me completing it...got corrupted and didn't save :( So its just the middle of the drawing. However, you'll still get an idea of the process, maybe. It's all done in illustrator.

Pee Wee and the Leprechaun!

Sorry its been so long since our last post. Busy we have been with a bunch of pitches the last two weeks. However, this week we're stepping aside to bring you a horrible tale of the worst accident ever seen! There was a sound like a garbage truck...DROPPED OFF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING! The Angry Lep tells Pee Wee of this twisted tale!

Here is some art work we just completed.

Party Foul Game Layout

So this week we have all been either creating new games or making new version of old ones. I've been working on this Party Foul game. Basically the way it works is you hear an audio clip, then you have to guess which movie it came from. After you guess you get to see the movie clip that goes along with the audio (similar to who farted)

Here are some scribbles i made while coming up with the idea...



And here is a rough idea of what its kinda gonna look like when its done...
The shatter was done in Maya using its cool physics feature. It takes a lot of tweaking to do pretty much anything in Maya (especially since my knowledge is limited) but its fun and looks cool :) The pic of my bearded dragon Maldune is where the Video will go.

If you're importing an image sequence into Flash, there is no way to lay the images out on the time line on a single layer easily. Flash allows you to distribute the images to layers, but after that you have to pull each one onto a single layer separately. Anyway, I found an awesome flash extension on Adobe's exchange page to fix this :) click here to check it out!

Pop Culture Quiz Layout

Sorry it has been a while since the last post. Last week we were working some late hours to animate How to get into a Celebrity Nightclub. This week, however, we're not doing CRAP! Keeeeeding, I'm Keeeeeeding! Everyone is pretty much doing something different. Natty Red is working on her wizardry, Cabana Boy is practicing his sniping with the help of LaBamba's expertise, Bear Toes is off clawing the LA river is search for salmon, JoeZee tried to push him off some logs into the river but was attacked by some spartans, check the footage here...and I like blue cheese.

Anyway, here is a screen shot of LG's Ultimate Pop Culture Quiz I'm working on. One is the black and white scan, the other is after it has been brought into Adobe Illustrator using the live trace option, and some color has been added. Can you guess who the inspiration came from? I'll give you a hint...James Jarvis.

JoeZee has been doing some sketches for another news related piece. Ill post those later. Labamba, Cabana Boy, and Natty Red are making some more sexy girl games like Sex Scene or Murder Scene, Fake or Slutty, Boob Match, etc. for your oogling pleasure, and Bear Toes is working on a Fill in the Blank for The Office.

So thats whats going on here. Have a splendid day.